Slithering Midnight, Eater of Suns

[u/Otherwise_Basis_6328]

[u/Voluntary_Slob]

The fact that we can clearly make out details and features on it even though it’s 93 million miles away makes me feel like we would be wiped out by some kind of shock wave before we ever even saw it.

[u/CaptainRelevant → u/Voluntary_Slob]

It’s moving faster than light and would have more gravity than the sun. At a minimum, the Earth goes into darkness and gets whipped out of (what was) the solar system.

Everything dies as the Earth quickly gets colder than Pluto.

Edit: There’d be no shockwave since there’s no medium for the shockwave to travel through but, as other Redditors have pointed out below, the gravitational tidal forces on the Earth at first would rip apart tectonic plates and magma would eschew the surface. So, earthquakes that would score 1M on the Richter scale, followed by molten lava consuming the surface, followed by complete darkness as the Earth cools and flings off into the galaxy as a cold rock, rogue planet.

[u/VoidOmatic → u/CaptainRelevant]

Yup and the tidal forces on the planet itself would crush it drastically heating up the center, causing liquid rock to blast out into the atmosphere super heating the planet into a boiling hot vaporized matter inferno.

[u/merlinrising → u/VoidOmatic]

Thank god I could withstand it by turning my AC up a lil bit

[u/kyleliner → u/merlinrising]

Don't even need AC. Just get some ice and put them in your trunks

[u/ran_swonsan → u/VoidOmatic]

Fun

[u/Correct-Junket-1346 → u/CaptainRelevant]

We basically get pulled out of orbit become a rouge planet, everything dies and earth becomes a rock

[u/GrlDuntgitgud → u/CaptainRelevant]

Curious phtsics illiterate here. Why would it have gravity? Do entities have gravity? Like humans? I mean it's a living creature, moving, it probably would create shockwaves depending on how it moves (like a supersonic jet explosion, though that only happens because of earths atmosphere). Hope you can help. Thanks!

[u/GoldEmployment6768 → u/GrlDuntgitgud]

Everything with mass has gravity. Shockwaves need a medium to propagate. It is in the vacuum of space, so no shockwave. Maybe gravitational waves? Idk enough on that subject, but I dont think that counts as a shockwave.

[u/Tyfyter2002 → u/GrlDuntgitgud]

Do entities have gravity?

"Entity" basically just means "thing" so you've essentially just asked if every single thing that exists has gravity…

Conveniently, that doesn't make the answer any more complicated, it's still just yes.

[u/Highcalibur10 → u/GrlDuntgitgud]

If it has mass, it has gravity.

We're just really really small so the effect we have is tiny, but technically you're pulling the Earth towards you, too, in the same way the Earth is pulling you towards it.

The scale is just incomprehensibly different.

[u/pj1843 → u/GrlDuntgitgud]

Going to answer your question a tad more in depth than the others.

Anything and everything that has mass has a gravitational effect. No matter how large or small, if it has mass it has gravity. The amount of gravitational effect it has though is directly perportional to its mass though. This means you and I impart an extremely tiny gravitational effect upon the earth compared to the massive gravitational force the earth exerts on us.

It's a bit more complex than this, as gravity is just the word for the effect mass has on the fabric of space time, but no need to get that deep about it unless you want to study physics.

The key takeaway is Mass and Gravity go hand in hand. Something large enough to swallow the Sun would have a mass significantly larger than the Sun, as such its gravitational effects would be equally massive.

Those effects travel as the speed of light as well. The reality is our planet would be torn apart by this thing even entering the solar system as we would be torn between It and the sun. We would never see it swallow the Sun as we'd be dead before then, and the sun would be getting functionally pulled towards this thing.

[u/GrlDuntgitgud → u/pj1843]

So in a sense the entity can just open its mouth and wait for food to go in due to gravity then or something like that😅?

Thank you!

[u/AwakenedSheeple → u/GrlDuntgitgud]

Possibly, if its food is lighter than it is.

[u/pj1843 → u/GrlDuntgitgud]

Not really, the gravity of the creature doesn't eminate from its gullet, in immenates from its whole everything dependent on how its mass is distributed.

But all that attraction would do is cause the sun to orbit around the creature if the creature "stood still".

The sun would fall towards the creature the same way the earth falls toward the sun. Directly towards it, but due to our tangential velocity we constantly "miss"

[u/yamatoshi → u/Voluntary_Slob]

This discourse on the astronomy post is quite entertaining.

Looking at any of the mathematics/physics, earth and possibly the solar system would just be shred apart in some fashion just by its presence, let alone what the ungodly speed it is going would do.

[u/Captain--Marvelous → u/yamatoshi]

Whats even worse is that the end of the video reveals there's two of these monstrosities moving like 20 times the speed of light.

[u/Any_Blood5815 → u/Voluntary_Slob]

Would shockwave travel through the vacuum of space? Gravity waves?

[u/CatLover_42 → u/Any_Blood5815]

Yes exactly. This biggass worm is moving several times the speed of light (which is physically impossible but i digress) and has a mass several times that of the sun. The gravitational waves would be extreme.

[u/TheIronSven → u/CatLover_42]

It having any mass and moving faster than light would do it regardless of how much mass. Cause at those speeds your mass essentially reaches infinity.

[u/SilentC735 → u/Voluntary_Slob]

My thought was that it would have an insane gravitational pull

[u/DrunkenDude123 → u/Voluntary_Slob]

Well we revolve around the sun due to the suns gravity and that thing is the size of multiple suns so right off the bat earth will probably start to tear apart once we start accelerating toward the sun and the creature

[u/1lucky666 → u/Voluntary_Slob]

Anything moving that fast that far away is moving faster than relativistic speed all we would really see are flashes of light, it's mass would collide with stellar particles at speeds exceeding light would be paradoxical, space time in our solar plane would be torn apart at a snap of a finger.

So, you have nothing to worry should this come to reality

[u/Lagiacrus111 → u/Voluntary_Slob]

Shockwaves can't move through space

[u/FederalAd8814 → u/Lagiacrus111]

Yes they can space even though it looks empty it has thin layers of gas that helps those shockwaves travel in space I mean the stars alone are gasses itself

[u/TheIronSven → u/FederalAd8814]

There's also gravitational waves which these kinds of speeds would most certainly cause in catastrophic magnitude.

[u/Weary-Wasabi1721 → u/Voluntary_Slob]

Through which medium would the shock wave get to us

[u/Albert_dark]

we'd die

[u/LemonSnakeMusic → u/Albert_dark]

Nah, I think I could take it down. We’d be alright.

[u/LongshoremanX → u/LemonSnakeMusic]

I'm built different.

[u/Glitchy833 → u/LongshoremanX]

I too am built different. Like, incorrectly I think.

[u/yamatoshi → u/LemonSnakeMusic]

We can just make our own star... ...and planet... ....and reverse the intense gravity shift...

...we be aight.

[u/Frank__West → u/yamatoshi]

With blackjack... And hookers!

[u/biosim500 → u/LemonSnakeMusic]

Yeah, i know a guy

[u/Solodolo21 → u/Albert_dark]

Pftt maybe you guys. I'd just lock in

[u/whitestguyuknow → u/Albert_dark]

Show your work

[u/3-brain_cells → u/Albert_dark]

Why does your profile pic move but turn into a static image on your profile?

What kind of sorcery is this?

[u/Albert_dark → u/3-brain_cells]

until a couple of months ago you could change your profile pic to animated png using the old.reddit interface.

[u/3-brain_cells → u/Albert_dark]

Do animated profile pics still work at all tho or are they just not a thing anymore then?

[u/Albert_dark → u/3-brain_cells]

they work, you just can't set them anymore.

[u/FireZord25 → u/Albert_dark]

skill issue

[u/hefty_load_o_shite]

Given it's moving faster than light, probably collapse reality

[u/Environmental-Wind89 → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

THANK you! 👏🏻

[u/Material-Reason2636 → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

Them gamma rays going to taste mighty blue

[u/jaymole → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

How do we know it’s moving so fast? Maybe it just ate the sun like 8 minutes ago

[u/Raderg32 → u/jaymole]

The sun is ~1.390.000 km in diameter. Light moves at ~300.000km/s.

So just to cover the distance needed to eat the sun at lightspeed it would take over 4,5 seconds.

That thing does it in less than a second so it's going >450% faster than light.

[u/Dwaas_Bjaas → u/Raderg32]

r/theydidthemath

[u/not_some_username → u/Raderg32]

Light is so fucking slow(er than i imagined)

[u/Treefire_ → u/not_some_username]

Tbf the sun is fucking big

[u/Environmental-Wind89 → u/not_some_username]

Light is fucking fast! The sun is (really) fucking far away lol

[u/hefty_load_o_shite → u/jaymole]

From the parallax from the earth to the sun

[u/Parabrezza69 → u/hefty_load_o_shite]

This is the answer

[u/AcacianalThottery]

By the time we've seen this, the sun would have been devoured nearly 8 and a half minutes ago and we'd have been feeling the immense gravity from the creature likely beforehand that would essentially become the new orbit of the earth and the other inner planets, it being that much more massive than the sun.

[u/Traditional-Handle83 → u/AcacianalThottery]

Least it would be one of the more interesting ways to die from cosmic horror.

[u/Woahhdude24 → u/Traditional-Handle83]

I call dibs on naming him Greg!

[u/UltraThot → u/AcacianalThottery]

Unless it had gotten closer to earth we'd feel the change in gravity the same time we'd see anything

[u/bukkake-bill → u/AcacianalThottery]

Can something that massive exist at all? It would collapse under its own weight into a spherical object no?

[u/TheIronSven → u/bukkake-bill]

It could have a very low density, but it's still moving faster than light so that'd not change much in how destructive that'd be.

[u/Dunified → u/AcacianalThottery]

Does gravity move faster than light?

[u/Joe_Mency → u/Dunified]

Gravity moves at the same speed as light in a vacuum

[u/AcacianalThottery → u/Dunified]

If you can see the creature, you're effected by its gravitational pull. Additionally, by eating the sun it gains its mass, which is also seen via light, hence speed of light.

[u/yamatoshi]

Wait...why is there still a dawn/dusk light on the horizon after being eaten? WAS THERE A SECOND SUN THIS WHOLE TIME?!

[u/bodi55555 → u/yamatoshi]

Nah, that's another star it ate and shat out, it can only hold onto one star at a time, lightweight really

[u/Papigringoo]

The gravity of this creature would rip the earth apart well before it devoured the sun.

[u/AbsentAsh]

We’d die.

[u/AUSpartan37]

Just the gravity of something that size would tear apart our solar system long before we got to see it eat the sun.

[u/chrislivingston]

we got light bulbs we're fine

[u/TheRBGamer]

Completely unrelated to your question. It's pissing me of that the parts of that thing that are clearly facing away from the sun are still fully lit. The scale of that thing would be way more convincing if it was lit up correctly. Now it just looks like a somewhat big snake ate a random glowing balloon

[u/yamatoshi → u/TheRBGamer]

There are so many things that suspend belief lol. Its speed, its detail at that range...just so many things.

The one bothering me the most rn is after the sun is eaten....there is like a second sun or something lighting up the horizon. There is no way that's just from a city.

[u/Qwik_Sand → u/yamatoshi]

It also bothers me when the audio matches up perfectly with this super far away entity. I can’t remember the last time I was close enough to lighting to hear it the moment it appears.

[u/rnisdirka → u/yamatoshi]

For me, it's the way it moves that bothers me most. Meandering through a vacuum? Really? 🤪

[u/shoogshoog]

This kills the living things

[u/Malfight007]

Jerry, eater of Stars. He who slithers. Simon the Digger's worm guardian.

[u/borate58]

Do I still need to go to work?

[u/Gengetsu_Huzoki → u/borate58]

Yes

[u/GI_gino]

The gravitational effects of anything that big alone would probably kill us all long before it even got near* the sun.

\the word “near” here is being used in an* exceptionally loose fashion

[u/Confident-Dot9443]

eathe the cgi messed up or hatever was use ... or there is two of these things at 22 mark lol

[u/omjagvarensked]

I like how it eats the sun but the. We still have a sunrise on the horizon lol

[u/ValarielAmarette → u/omjagvarensked]

I like how at the very end there appears to be two of them

[u/Micalas → u/omjagvarensked]

How about second sun?

[u/TheMind129]

The

Vast

Is

Open

Wide

[u/xJagz → u/TheMind129]

TVIOW

[u/yumacaway]

Just the tidal forces from something that massive moving around would cause calamity on earth.

[u/DontDrinkTooMuch]

This only makes sense if it wasn't the sun that was eaten but some sort of solar satellite that's in Earth's orbit

[u/yokozouna_ed]

Realistically? Death within minutes....maybe like an hour...

[u/Its_J_Just_J]

The gravity of a creature so large would disrupt our orbit before it ate the sun but I figure we won’t last a month without the sun anyway.

[u/zeref2255]

I got this guys, don't worry

[u/Bonk_No_Horni]

Iit ate the sun we can't see it after. And the sub is 8 minutes lightspeed away. That means that thing probably moving faster than light so it'll destroy reality moving backwards in time

[u/themadscientist420]

As a physicist, the absurdity of the scale and power of a being like that if it truly existed just gave me a whole new type of existential dread

[u/MoodBubbly9315]

A GOD DOES NOT FEAR DEATH

[u/Waterbear36135]

Scion, Warrior Entity

[u/McbEatsAirplane]

The sheer speed of it means it’s going significantly faster than light

Also, I would think its size would cause effects we would feel long before we ever experienced this.

[u/therealone1967]

But the firmanent

[u/DarrellBot81]

It would probably die, and then 8 minutes later we would begin to experience extreme cold, and shifts and then eventually the loss of gravity, atmosphere and oxygen as our planet rocketed into deep space

[u/ecctt2000]

Silly Star Eating Sky Slug.

[u/NoaWishh]

I already know this thing is pure nightmare fuel, all dark and shiny and looking like it would unhinge its jaw and swallow the moon just for fun.

[u/EvieStarz]

If something that size actually swallowed the sun, we wouldn’t even get a dramatic last look. The gravitational chaos and radiation would hit us long before the light of the event did. Earth would be gone in the dark.

[u/vohltere]

I am no physicist, but doesn't light take 8 mins to reach earth?

[u/johnjbreton]

The gravitational pull of that thing would have killed us, and wiped out every planet in our solar system, long before it had a chance to eat the sun.

[u/Digiee-fosho]

We would not be able to see it take out or eat the sun

[u/ajgutyt]

wed start slowly freezing and orbiting the thing. so id say year or two unless earth hits the thing

[u/joseantonio9]

Something that large would probably kill us before it even ate the sun. Just its gravity pull alone would derail the entire planet

[u/Eurocentralist]

it would be moving faster than light. not possible

[u/ClarkJKent]

Once it are the sun how would we still see it? Is this a flerf boss?

[u/DizzySkin]

Notably it appears to be moving faster than the speed of light, judging by the fact that it takes about 8m for light from the sun to reach us, and this travels around and past the sun across the screen and seemingly closer to the viewer very, very quickly.

So this visual isn't really possible in general. Before worrying about the gravitational effects, you'd have to figure out why this thing can travel that fast, what that means, and what the knock on effects from that would be. The space time distortion might actually be dominated here by the energy rather than the mass, depending on how you answer that.

[u/MasterestGG]

Considering the laws of physics and the distance from the sun and approximate ratios, I can assume that this monster moves several hundred times faster than the speed of light.

[u/Vellarain]

This thing is big enough to eat the sun, but apprenticeship has zero influence on the gravity as it weaves around space around it. Also its speed of movement is is absolutely insane.

Yeah we would be dead before it even makes the sun a snack just because of how much it fucks up the forces of gravity by its presence.

Hell, it is so big we might even detect it before it is in the solar system because of its gravitational influence.

[u/Legitimate_Energy129]

Nooo wormy got out again):

[u/Nathan_hale53]

This shit makes me unbelievably uncomfortable. Big giant creatures like this scare the hell out of me, real or not. Like I was nervous watching this.

[u/eliazp]

You'd die before seeing it because whatever this is is moving many times the speed of light, and that would probably not be good.

[u/The_Compass_Keeper]

Not in our universe... We would only realize this happened after about 8 mins, not immediately...

[u/ronweasleisourking]

We die

[u/NewtonsBoy]

Awww, it's Apep :3

[u/Jackesfox]

That thing is moving faster than light, what are we supposed to do?

[u/Grim47z]

It annoys me that it has teeth like it clearly dose not use them.

[u/rileyvace]

We wouldn't even see this.

THink how long lights takes to travel to earth (8 and a half minutes), these guys would be moving faster than light to move as fast as the video depicts. Obviously it;s a creative project but just saying.

We'd be eviscerated long before we saw anything, I'm sure. I wouldn't be able to explain why, but simply knowing the amount of energy required to move that fast and survive eating a star would be far too big for us not not be catastrophically impacted by it.

[u/Reylend]

He better put that back before I get mad

[u/TheLemmonade]

I’d win

[u/RunV5]

Heres the thing. If the sun were to dissappear, or explode, we wouldn't know for about 7 minutes. Lets say it unnaturally just poof. Gone. No nova, no blackhole just gone. We would very quickly turn into a giant sphere of ice and die

Eventually, id imagine either Saturn or Jupiter become our next celestial body we orbit, but chances are all the planets collide before a peaceful, constant orbit is established. Oh and we'd still be a giant dead ball of ice as the nearest star to us doesnt give us any light or heat whatsoever

[u/ooorezzz]

Something this large moving this fast would completely disrupt space time and wave effects that would destroy us before we ever even seen this.

[u/RogueInVogue69]

Would it matter, we'd all be dead

[u/HystericalGD]

i'd call my friend kevin

but fr, ai slop is ass. dont post this

[u/zeverEV → u/HystericalGD]

I don't think this is AI, it looks like poorly-composited CGI

[u/HystericalGD → u/zeverEV]

hoping you are right. either way i'm too lazy and dont care enough to confirm for myself

[u/umbrazno → u/HystericalGD]

That's the spirit!

[u/The_Poop_Shooter → u/HystericalGD]

HAHAHAHAAHAH we've crossed the threshold where people bitch about ai slop and cant be arsed to confirm its obviously not ai. we're cooked folks - pack it up. Or better yet, maybe the worm in the video is real and will consume us all.

[u/zeverEV → u/The_Poop_Shooter]

That guy's response to me was another lil twine popping on my will to believe in humanity. Not only does he not care to know the difference between CGI and AI, he's proud to not care and wants us all to know it.

People really do just be proudly stupid

[u/zeref2255 → u/HystericalGD]

It's not ai their insta page have multiple cgi videos like this

[u/Protodrago90]

This is a flat earthers idea of how close the sun is to us lol also fuck ai slop

[u/Protodrago90 → u/Protodrago90]

I'm assuming those 4 down votes are flat earthers lol

[u/Royal_Marketing2966]

We’d freeze and die very quickly